Under your flawed logic here, neither Damien Gomez nor Allyson Maynard-Gibson should have had any objection to pressing appropriate charges against Grey and/or Newbold for the wrongful release from custody of a convicted individual in contempt of a magistrate's order that he be kept remanded. It is an inescapable fact that the judiciary was over ridden by either Gray or Newbold, or both of them, and as a result a convicted individual in custody was freed thereby perverting the course of justice under our legal system. The AG's Office cannot walkaway from this matter without causing irreparable harm to the most fundamental cornerstones of our system of government and judiciary! Some things must never be swept under the rug for fear of the public losing trust in our judiciary by perceiving a complete break down in the laws of our land.

You can bet your last dollar the U.S. government has the voice record of the relevant phone calls.

It's your kind of mindset that has our country plagued with all the problems it has today. You clearly believe that even if it was done the wrong way yesterday, it should still be done the wrong way today so as not to upset the apple cart. The new president may have met a situation where many members were not paying their annual dues by the due date, but this did not require her to do anything more than she did to let members know that in future their names would be removed from the membership register if they failed to pay their dues in full by the due date. You sound like someone who gets away with paying your BEC bill whenever you want to rather than when it falls due for payment. BREA's president was doing her best to ensure BREA didn't end up like BEC with loads of worthless receivables!

This was not a case where the Court, on the basis of the submissions and evidence presented to it, would have wrongfully denied the plaintiff (Mr. Smith) his livelihood had it ruled in favour of the defendant (BREA). The plaintiff should have been held personally responsible for his own conduct in failing to pay, without justifiable cause, his annual dues by the established due date notwithstanding more than one reminder to do so. Paying his annual dues on time, absent good cause for not doing so (e.g. major illness), was a condition of Mr. Smith's membership in brea. brea was under no obligation to treat Mr. Smith any differently than its other members when it came to the timely payment of his annual dues. Justice Deborah Fraser appears to have clearly erred in her decision making process behind the ruling. Mr. Smith was never in any position to appeal his removal from the membership register for failure to pay his annual dues by the specified due date. Not paying one's annual dues by the due date is not an appealable matter, but rather is an outright condition of membership. The fact that Mr. Smith ignored the payment due reminders, and only sought to make payment after his name appeared on the published list of individuals removed from the membership register, speaks volumes. The number of years Mr. Smith had previously been a member of BREA should not have been in any way germane to the case. The Court has now placed BREA in an untenable position viz a viz its members when it comes to the enforcement mechanism for ensuring payment of their annual dues by the due date as a condition of continued membership.

And let's not forget about the foreigners who have been hired by our government to manage Nassau International Airport. Seems our government loves giving Bahamians a D- education while the political elite and their business cronies make many lucrative side deals with the foreigners they prefer to hire to manage and/or own just about everything in the public sector of our economy today. Our main airport, BTC and BEC are public sector monopolies that should have been pumping great profits into our Public Treasury had they been properly managed and maintained over the years. If successive Ingraham and Christie led administrations could run these public sector monopolies into the ground through unseemly political interference, one can only imagine what lies ahead for our entire country. Simply frightening!

Any conflict in the "Gray say, Newbold say" evidence should be easily overcome by the mere fact that Newbold had no motive whatsoever to release Gray's constituent from custody other than fear of reprisal from Gray if Newbold did not do as Gray had no doubt forcefully and intimidatingly told him to do. Any discrepancies in the recollections by Gray and Newbold of the number and/or duration of their phone discussions should not form the basis for excusing the wrongful acts of either Gray or Newbold. Gray wrongfully intervened in a law enforcement matter involving his constituent and Newbold wrongfully released the man held in custody upon being demanded to do so by Gray in a more than likely threatening way. No matter how you cut this, both Gray and Newbold should be held to account for the illegal acts they have committed in a Court of law. The shear absurdity of Allyson Maynard-Gibson (and possibly Greenslade) taking the position that no charges should be pressed against anyone in this matter defies all logic and credibility. What our Attorney General has done here is not that different from what Gray should have been charged with doing. Stop interfering with and intervening in legal processes that should be allowed to run their course under the law!

That white fella at KPMG (who has been very quiet recently) hasn't said anything about these critical issues you cite, most of which were first reported on by Richard Coulson in his recent letter to the Editor of The Tribune.

Fitzgerald played a coldly-calculated duplicitous role motivated by political survival and therefore should not get a free pass for the same reason.

Has anyone noticed how much our AG resembles the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz? What an awful shameless unconscionable dreadful looking creature we have in our midsts solely by virtue of nepotism at its very worst!

Surely our PM had the common decency and courtesy to consult with senior management and senior electrical engineers at Baha Mar and Atlantis before deciding on PowerSecure to manage the union crisis and the power system generation and distribution upgrades that BEC should have done several years ago. If these consultations did not happen between the PM and BEC's largest customers, then we quite clearly have a PM who is much more interested in cutting 'sweet deals' with a relatively small under resourced foreign player in the electrical power industry (presumably for the benefit of his political friends and business cronies) than he is about securing a reliable supply of electrical power for all Bahamians at a reasonable cost. PowerSecure's balance sheet is about the same size as BEC's balance sheet so it naturally begs the question: "how in the hell is power secure going to bring anything beneficial to bec without christie forcing even more excessive debt on our country??!!!